skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This site allows us to return an arbitrary HTTP response to be displayed in other users' browsers?

We could all set cookies under the browserver.org domain for one thing.

Perhaps we could return some Javascript to be cached in browsers and self-replicate among users of this page. Not so sure about that one though.
I've got a few files stored on https://tarbackup.com/. It's free (for now). It doesn't have a lot of features, but I like the simplicity.
This works fine on my Galaxy Nexus. I'm using Chrome.

The only suggestion that I have is to do some smoothing of the values you get from the accelerometer. The movement can be a bit jerky.
Start ups: Berlin vs London
Open source's secret ally: Moore's Law
I'm interested in two things:
1. Is the connection to Zap Drive encrypted?
2. How are the Public Folders working? (cannot find any details more in the docs)
who fix the prices of books?

The publishers. If you look at the back of most books, you'll see a price printed in the bottom corner. In most countries that generally seen as a general guideline and an upper limit, in France it's legally binding.
Google strikes... AGAIN?
Perhaps, but what RockMelt is proposing is even less referentially transparent. My point is that the "problem" the quote proposes is not ripe for disruption as it has already been disrupted by search long ago.
Well, we have come to a point where no one actually cares about IE. Everyone wishes this browser wouldn't exist and most of the people use it as a tool to download Chrome and Firefox.

Having said that Microsoft's new policy is either aimed at discouraging Flash altogether OR this is just a test. They want to test users are willing accept this kind of feature where MS white-listed websites are given more power than the normal websites. Expect more to happen on this front.
I uninstalled Flash from my machine, got tired of it constantly patching/updating/hardening itself. If I want to view Flash-content I use Chrome.
Except that someone would buy $10 million of such machines and gang them together. And we would call that a supercomputer, not whatever you put under your desk.

Defining it on any architecture or performance metric is just pointless because the march of time renders such things utterly moot. Remember when PlayStation 2s were "supercomputers"? Please.
Blog spam rewrite of

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-...

http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1847
The reward is knowing that you're shaping a great front page!

Voting rings have been (are?) a problem for HN, and I suspect a reward system for people who are active on [new] will be open to abuse from voting rings. But I don't know - maybe there's some interesting science / math in online voting and reputation systems.
There is an error on Signup on Safari (OS X 10.7):
- first time entered a password less then 8 chars
- pressed signup
- errors appeared
- now the signup button has a layout like being pressed and it is disabled
Textbooks in pure ASCII sounds like a pain. No hyperlinks? No index?
Wait. If you use 200-300MB of DB storage, openredis costs $69 using it as a Heroku add-on and $45 if used independently.

$125 ($90) is the price of the large instance, which offers 1.7GB of storage.

That's quite a difference.
>At least with flash you had the guarantee it would crash the same on all platforms.
Uhm no. The Mac-version usually was both slower and less stable than the Windows-version.

And the situation in JavaScript-land is getting better too. jQuery was developed years ago and while it still does paper over some implementation gotchas, it's main focus has shifted towards providing a nicer DOM-API. Since ES5, I started migrating away from jQuery for some more leisurely projects.
I think its a terrible idea.

So you wake up:

1. Make bed and tuck in sheets so when bed is folded all the bedding doesn't fall off.
2. Fold up bed - desk appears.
3. Unbox everything to put on desk
4. Plug in any electrical equipment. (obviously a desktop computer would be very impractical.
5. Pull up a chair and do some work.

When your done reverse the steps. You cannot leave any work out or organized on your desk ready for the next day as you need your bed. Your desk chair I guess needs to be left in the corner at night as there is no table to tuck it under.

It just seems like the guy is combining 2 pieces of furniture which should not be combined.
> I don't think there's anything there that wasn't already known.

You must be a Nokia insider then: the various generations of UI design, types devices in development (with pictures!) that never made it, etc were new and fascinating imo.
Total buzzdibbing.
The keyword is lockdown.

I am all for giving hate to flash. It is commonly found vulnerable. It produce slow websites which eats memory and cpu. It has poor history in non-windows systems.

But in all, I have serious doubt this call was made for any reason beyond pushing users to their app-store. games? online experience? chat? By forbidding flash, companies are bit more forced to turn to apps with their products. Sure, things can still use javascript, html5 and web-sockets, but I would not trust web-sockets to be left alone if they seriously would start to threaten the app world.

Maybe I am just cynical, but follow the money argument looks to support it.
Better still, come do a talk! I am sure you have tons of great stories to share.
Adobe themselves don't support Flash on mobile.
The Importance of Local Development Environments
Ahhh, I really wish I could afford to go down there, I just moved in to a new flat and can't afford the transport.

If anyone from the north west is planning on driving, let me know and I will happily chip in for petrol (and I'll throw in 10 hours of free PHP work on a project of your choosing!)

It's a shame this isn't after the 24th when I get paid. I hope all of the attendees enjoy themselves.
I suppose Facebook is coming close to the line here by avoiding tax in quite an agressive way. It's still not classed as evasion, but it's getting pretty close if they are paying risible taxes on huge earnings (though it must be remembered that these are estimates). Of course the individual employees must pay tax, but the company itself should too.

If they hire people in London, pay them in London, find clients in London, service those clients in London, and then book the payment through Eire, is that simply a bookkeeping exercise to avoid paying corporation tax? If so I'd expect the law to be changed eventually to account for this, as it was for Amazon's offshoring to avoid VAT, as otherwise companies like Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook pay very little corporation tax (sometimes even none) on huge profits and yet use the resources, talent and infrastructure of the host country. I can see this becoming more and more of a problem as it becomes easier for global companies to shop for jurisdictions and move nominal profits from one country to another.
I agree that html tables are used and get the job done, but I would much rather deal with one container div, one 960 div, then 3 section divs for header, content, and footer, then, one or more tables doing the same thing.

It's 2012, and CSS is easy. With a little work, all the problems you can point out can be fixed easily, including flexible grid layouts, and columns, responsive design. Can you even make a flexible table layout?

Also, every site I maintain that uses tables for layout, uses more than one, and it's source is absolutely horrible. While you say that a CMS should level should handle this, that doesn't factor in responsive design, site creation, or massive overhauls to style. Semantics will be an important element in the web soon, and doing html tables for layout, is considered wrong by anyone who cares. http://www.w3.org/2002/03/csslayout-howto
Your points stick for a subset of games, but I don't think bringing Minecraft into the mix makes sense.

Other "addicting" games that Zynga can be compared to are things that have been in the casual space for years, or a decade-plus. Things like Bejeweled and the casual flash-game portals that (used to be) everywhere.

Zynga is in the business of shallow gaming experiences that focus on extracting money from users. I think when most people think of good game companies, they are thinking of companies that make games with depth that don't require a refill (via money) to keep having "fun" or progressing.
I think of lens-shaped objects, particularly lenticular clouds.

Until now I did not know what the name of those moving images were.

(I'm not the original poster)
So we should do away with all regulation then?

Straw man/false dilemma.

Being cognizant of the danger of unnecessary concentrations of power in our society does not mean that there's no reason to concentrate power.

It means having a healthy understanding of the side-effects of that concentration of power and gives yet another reason to keep government's focus on the narrow side.

Plenty of nations (i.e. all first world nations) have implemented national schemes of some sort, and none of them suffer from the stuff that you read about coming from the right's bullshit machine.

Broad generalizations. Actually, many first world nations have had huge problems with their national schemes from poor medical services and poor availability of actual treatment to larger economic issues resulting from overspending on social programs like health care.

The bottom line for me is that the health care law passed is a huge and complicated power grab of a mess that did nothing to address the main issues that needed to be addressed: Reduction of the middlemen and price-hiding tactics standing between healthcare providers and consumers. The government had a real opportunity to cut the ties between place-of-work and healthcare. They had a real opportunity to give consumers the tools and rights they needed so that they could be informed purchasers of healthcare services.
Doesn't work on Safari on the iPad2 for me.
Lessons from Netflix Test: Predicting movie ratings and recommender systems
SHAMELESS PLUG: While I understand not everyone can attend, http://indieconf.com is a conference dedicated to these sorts of topics, and Brennan will be speaking there. If you'd like to meet him face to face, this is an opportunity to do so, while also meeting with other solo consultants/freelancers looking to grow.
OK. What would you like me to talk about?

Could perhaps talk about what it's like to write a book for O'Reilly based on my experience of writing The Geek Atlas. Or talk about the Analytical Engine project. Or how everyone in London should be using CloudFlare. Or bit banging on micro controllers. Or what I like about Go. Or being a programmer over 40 :-)

Or..?
I'm becoming confused as to who Microsoft are anymore. They continue to disappoint by chasing other people's customers while alienating their existing ones.

I've been here before with WindowsCE and WinMobile. :(
MyKeyFinder: Find Serial Number Of Softwares Inside Your PC.
I stand corrected. I was using the prices from redis-to-go, which was the only available option last time I checked, and the service with the big prominent link at the top of the heroku pricing page. Good to see that there is some competition in the area and that prices have come down a bit. Still not cheap enough to move my hobby project from a 1GB VPS, but reasonable enough if I ever turn my project into something that might make money.
>most of the people use it as a tool to download Chrome and Firefox.

Not true. A lot of people still use it as in use. I was alarmingly surprised to find the number of users using IE as their main browser in my office, other than mandatory use to access company portal. And oh, my company's entire mail/issue-tracking suite works on this piece of art.
Ah, that's what I thought you meant too, but I'm a bit confused about what amazed you in the name. It's a good name, but I think it doesn't make much sense in this context, if it weren't for lenticular printing.
I followed through your profile, and the hiking app looks very good. Great job!

How do you get 'outdoor maps' into the App, ie do you license them or are they available freely somewhere?
ITC Administrative Law Judge Rejects Apple's FRAND Arguments Against Samsung
"Flaming IE" still needs to be done to keep noobs aware how bad a browser it is. We can't kill it off if rank amateurs continue to use it. An informed user is the best user and immature users are the only ones using IE (and customers stuck with legacy software mired in an IE swamp).
Technically I think orbit can be achieved ballistically, or even planetary/solar escape but the overwhelming majority of projectiles do land. And some of them very hard, others barely get off the ground. All of which makes it quite a good metaphor really although not the originally intended one.
.NET.

Almost everybody uses some version of Windows or other and so .NET is there more or less.
In the early '80s I had the same problem with my dorm room and solved it by raising the bed above the desk. It looks like you have plenty of ceiling height and eliminates the need to unmake and remake the bed (or desk). The back of my desk also had a hutch for storage.

Now 30 years later, my daughter's dorm room came equipped with a bed that was designed to be raised above either the desk or a bit of seating. I don't see a reason to flip the bed if you're not looking for open floor-space.
Learn something already
Haha I remember getting my first spam text message from them, and wondering to myself, "What is this garbage? Why am I paying over $65 a month, only to be sent more messages about how I can give them more money?"

This year however, Rogers got a student internet plan which is almost equivalent to TekSavvy (~$5 more expensive, but it's 300GB of bandwidth). At least they're getting the message, albeit very slowly.
It's impossible only if you believe it's impossible. Also philosophy won't get you anywhere in anything but philosophizing.
For me, as a solo developer/consultant, my standard rate is about 50-80% more than most other solo developers I know in the area. My CPA is $25/hr more than my standard rate. Attorneys in the area are anywhere from $50-$100/hr more than my standard rate. Does that help at all?

My area is Raleigh, NC, and currently all of my active clients are in NC.
A month studying JavaScript and jQuery (lots of employers place specific emphasis on this) will give you a decent knowledge of the language. Definitely enough to put it on your resume and use it competently.
May be the fight is not worth anything to me personally. But look at the larger picture. By asking you to like their product they are enforcing their opinion on you, in aspects of life that they have no right to control. If we exaggerate this scene the company might tomorrow ask you to marry your coworkers because that will help them curb attrition rates.
Capital One bank website under DDOS attack
I know, and I'm using it for this, but the previous dialog was just way better and user-friendly. It had large previews and descriptions while the new tweak tool only has some uncommented options in a drop-down menu.
Well, It would be more awesome if your site was not "unable to select a database".
Looking at the larger picture in this context we are moving to a world where Browser == computer.
I use this tool as well. Comes in handy. Any chance I can put in a feature request to reduce the minimum window size? About 960*600 would be perfect.
It'll run flash, it won't run flash, it'll run flash, now it will only run some flash. Headspin. Alienating developers.
گروه طراحی وب سایت ارج گستر
گروه طراحی وب سایت ارج گستر
Regardless, A/B testing is not a panacea

Right. Deliver an outstanding product right from the beginning with your very best work. That's the strategy I use. A/B testing, while important, is often overstated.
How To Love Your Stock Broker...
'In simple terms, pre-commerce is “buying stuff that doesn’t exist yet”. In more grown-up words, it’s a framework for companies to cheaply establish market demand for a new product idea and acquire the cash flow to produce it.'

[OP]

'Reported earnings on derivatives are often wildly overstated. That’s because
today’s earnings are in a significant way based on estimates whose inaccuracy may not be exposed for
many years. The errors usually reflect the human tendency to take an optimistic view of one’s commitments. But the
parties to derivatives also have enormous incentives to cheat in accounting for them. Those who trade
derivatives are usually paid, in whole or part, on “earnings” calculated by mark-to-market accounting. But
often there is no real market, and “mark-to-model” is utilized. This substitution can bring on large-scale mischief. As a general rule, contracts involving multiple reference items and distant settlement dates increase the opportunities for counter-parties to use fanciful assumptions. The two parties to the contract might well use differing models allowing both to show substantial profits for many years. In extreme cases, mark-to-model degenerates into what I would call mark-to-myth.'

[http://www.fintools.com/docs/Warren%20Buffet%20on%20Derivati...]

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When you make assumptions concerning something's value with no concrete immediate exchange of the goods you are valuing [simply put, you are finalizing transactions for things you are not shipping], you are in fact delaying market's feedback and the possible negative consequences this latter can produce to your assets. By employing Pre-Commerce in your model, you are not getting early feedback. You are just betting you will be able to provide in the near future the value you are paid for right now, and you are selling to your customers a burden-share of risks, along with the product you offer. Sure in some occasions you will be able to meet your users' expectations. But if and when you won't, bad things will hit you [and your company] with much greater impacts.
If you don't reach it in time, collect pre-orders. Seriously. Getting an escrow setup in place that in effect gives you a similar payment mechanism as Kickstarter (money handed over to you once the $750k is met; returned if criteria are not met) does not need to be expensive. Even without Escrow I think that if you get close to the target, a substantial number of those of us who've committed on Kickstarter will be ok with taking the risk. And it'd let you set longer/more flexible terms to make reaching it easier.
This is slightly a plug for my conference, but is also the motivation behind it.

I've been in software dev for 18 years or so. I set up a small shop 12 years ago, went bust after 4 years, then went solo again in 2007. I've not expanded beyond myself (so far), but have been hopefully getting better at what I do, both in terms of software but also business skills.

A couple of years ago I started seeing an uptick in questions from people in the area: "How much do you charge? How do you decide what to charge? How do you write a contract? How do you get clients? How should I do XYZ? What tools do you use?", etc.

People who know me know I love to talk, so I'd happily answer. I started to realize though, that I was only giving one perspective. Even when I'd qualify that perspective as "this is just my experience", it didn't help them very much. I started getting other people I knew involved in the discussions, getting their perspectives, which were sometimes vastly different than mine, and they'd arrive at different conclusions. Eye-opening to say the least.

At the point, the idea of the conference (http://indieconf.com) was born - an event to bring people together to foster the learning, Q&A and networking which helps those questions get answered with far more perspectives than I could offer on my own.

Reading a book is not necessarily bad, but being able to ask questions about those books' ideas face to face, get answers, and have discussions about those topics has worked out decently for the conference over the past couple years.
Your reply once again proves that you're incapable of understanding the players, and instead of attempting to understand, you're judging and insulting them and how they freely choose to spend their time.

Seriously just because you don't like something doesn't mean people who do are brainwashed. That's extremely pretentious and offensive and I really have nothing more to say to you.
Am I the only one that really dislikes the pinterest style layouts? Off center, mis-aligned .. I don't know how anyone finds it usable.
Also an interesting information: there are two versions of IE. How and why should the user choose which one is more appropriate? Will the locked down version be default?
Hashing Redux: Proving What You Know
I think it is good for showing some different plugins and configuration options available in Vim. I think I will use the the included .vimrc file and plugins to look at to get ideas for my own .vimrc. The default in the distribution makes my Vim look like a christmas tree, which I don't really like.
I'd definitely come to hear about the analytical engine project.
Data API will use SCTP and not TCP so there are some considerations for implementing HTTP over SCTP based channel. Also it depends on what Congestion control the SCTP implements/enables.

There are also NAT traversal considerations which would make connection setup longer when compared to HTTP based infrastructure. Of course, as the underlying transport matures over time (or people build extensive libraries in JS to over come the deficiencies), we will see if data API will become larger than its current vision (of serving data in-band with multimedia)

[RELIABLE vs UNRELIABLE DATA CHANNEL]http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-01...

[CONGESTION CONTROL] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-data-channel-01...
Come on, lets be serious. Hardly anyone is going to pay $25 for an app they will use only once. And it's an app. Most people flinch at any price over $2.99.

Pricing it at $25 would be a disaster. You can bet the barn on that.
I'm flying to SF the next day for Startup School.. could be all HN'd out by the end of the weekend..anyone else going?
I'm not sure if I misunderstand your CDN remark, but your web server shouldn't be connecting to the Google CDN at any point. Your server provides the list of resources to the client browser, which is responsible for connecting to remote hosts to fetch those resources. If your server is near you, you will almost always see better latency for locally hosted content. But for users in Asia, being able to download something like jquery from a more local Google server helps significantly. Plus, Google CDN content can be cached, so users don't have to download it again for each site they visit.

I guess the point is, is your site for your personal use, or the world at large?
> Your argument is that you wouldn't want to live in a building where the tenants hadn't undergone background checks and credit checks, and that this increases risk.

Not really, my point was with respect to who cares for their property the most: owners > long term renters > short term( 1 week or less) renters
> But was I so completely wrong about what HN would find interesting?

I don't think so.

Whether a good submission gets noticed and upvoted early depends quite a bit on what time of day it is submitted. I have formed the opinion that 0700 eastern might be the best time, as the east coast sees it, UK sees it, and if something gets a few upvotes within a few minutes, it is likely to hit the front page, at which point it much more likely to be evaluated on its merits.

Keep in mind that upvotes come from two sources. First is if someone is viewing an HN page, perhaps /newest and likes the article, clicks uparrow. The other way is if another user submits the same link, it gets an automatic update. So if a popular twit is noticed and submitted, the chance of a handful of submissions in a few minutes is higher.

And I have a suspicion that if one were to tally the number of times the uparrow was hit on the front page as opposed to the /newest page, the front page would be vastly higher.